Lastly, I know many other Web sites have touch on this, but we hadn’t yet and I wanted to make mention of baseball writer John Brattain’s untimely death.

I’d never met or interacted with John, but through my brief stint at Baseball Digest Daily (now Baseball Daily Digest), one of the many site’s he wrote for, I became exposed to his work. I won’t pretend to know him enough (or at all) to have been personally impacted by his passing, but I can be sure his wife and two daughters are going through a very difficult time right now.